Sandwich chain Subway just made a huge announcement for those out there who love chocolate chip cookies: on Monday, December 4th, National Cookie Day, Subway customers at a few select locations across the country will get a free footlong cookie.
This is the second year in a row that Subway has produced the footlong cookie. The test version rolled out in a limited edition in 2022 in Miami, and now the restaurant appears to
In the press release, Subway announced, “Subway® is offering fans a first bite of its new footlong chocolate chip cookie, coming next month to restaurants nationwide. On National Cookie Day, cookie lovers and footlong fiends in Chicago, Dallas, Miami and New York can visit select Subway restaurants that will be transformed into Cookieway and get one free footlong cookie with the purchase of any footlong sub.”
The four locations at which the free cookies will be handed out are the Chicago location at 604 S Wabash Ave., Suite D, Chicago, IL 60605, the Dallas location at 1222 Commerce Street, Suite 150, Dallas, TX 75202, the Miami location at 2795 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33140, and the New York City location at 545 8 Ave., New York, NY 10018.
Explaining the background of the footlong cookie, the Subway press release added, “Subway sells more freshly baked cookies than any other restaurant company in the United States and will soon be the exclusive home of the footlong cookie. Subway created a special, limited run of footlong cookies for National Cookie Day in 2022, which fans gobbled up in less than two hours at its Cookieway pop-up in Miami. Subway’s culinary team spent the past year packing even more craveable, chocolate chip deliciousness into a footlong version of its most popular cookie.”
Paul Fabre, Senior Vice President of Culinary and Innovation at Subway, said, “The overwhelming response we received from fans around the country last year let us know that we needed to make the footlong cookie a permanent addition to our menu. At Cookieway this year, our guests will get a sneak peek of an even better footlong cookie: thick, gooey, packed with chocolate chips and served warm – right out of the oven. It’s the perfect pairing with your favorite footlong sub and may even become your favorite footlong after the first bite.”
When the cookie was first released in 2022, he said, “Bringing together two of Subway’s most iconic menu items — footlong subs and Subway cookies — was the only way we could top our celebration of National Cookie Day last year when we opened the first Cookieway.”
The cookies will be sold (when not given out for free) for the month as part of the Subway Cares Foundation, which, among other things, runs the Subway’s Fresh Start Scholarships program. That scholarship offers tuition assistance to “Sandwich Artists” working in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Puerto Rico, providing each recipient $2,500 towards their secondary education.
Featured image credit: Subway press release on the free cookie
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